Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in developing her Department’s peatland calculator for carbon losses, whether the Government will include peat destruction caused by (i) wind farm developments and (ii) wildfires caused by excess vegetation.

The Government is working with the Scottish Government on the development of an updated carbon calculator tool for England, similar to that used in Scotland. This will assess for the carbon impacts of peatland disturbance associated with onshore wind developments.

Peatland damaged through wildfire is not a factor being assessed through the peatland carbon calculator.